| Meeting Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| January 19, 2008 |
Round Table |
We are privileged to have so many expert breeders as
members of our club. We arranged a
roundtable comprised of someone knowledgable in each of these areas: mop
spawners, peat spawners, fry care and feeding, and live foods. We had
26 people attending, including Craig Rees and John Aldrich from the
Minnesota Killie Keepers Club. The auction was one of the largest
ones ever. Despite bitterly cold and blustery weather, 25 intrepid
souls from the Illinois-Indiana line to the Quad Cities to the Twin Cities
showed up for a breeders’ round-table. Just to show that the breeding
killies talked about were no flukes, ten styros with assorted critters and
plants came along for the ride. If styros could sneer, they laughed in the
face of adversity.
The auction included: Aplocheilus lineatus red,
Aphyosemion australe gold lyretail 3 pairs, A.
australe gold lyretail youngsters, A. australe BSWG, A. australe
chocolate, A. kekemense, A. louessense Malinga, A. (Chrom.) poliacki Mile
29, A.(Chrom.) splendopleure Tiko green 2 bags, A. striatum Lambaréné,
Austrolebias nigripinnis Villa Soriano, Epiplatys dageti monroviae,
Fundulopanchax gardneri gold, German import, Fp. gardneri gold (yellow and
red strips in unpaired fins) German import, Fp.gardneri Makurdi, Fp. puerzli
Yebeni trio, Fp. sjoestedti, Fp. walkeri orange, Nothobranchius kafuensis
Kayuni State Farm, Scriptaphyosemion cauveti Bar. Loire GRCH 93/239, A very
useful Hydrosponge filter for an 10 or 20-gallon aquarium, 5 sets of four
petri dishes (suitable for drying out eggs and covering jars), Broadleaf
water sprite, perhaps Ceratopteris cornuta, Java moss 3 bags, Najas
guadalupensis (Southern Naiad) 2 bags, Oriental water fern, perhaps
Ceratopteris thalictroides 3 bags, Riccia fluitans or crystalwort – all
without a single duckweed 3 bags, Salvinia natans
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| March 15, 2008 |
Darrell Ullisch |
Our speaker is Darrell Ullisch - Rivulus,
Not Just Little Brown Fish. We will also be preparing for our
spring show. |
| March 29-30, 2008 |
2008 Annual Show |
Annual
show this year at the Holiday Inn Express
Our 50th Anniversary Chicago Killifish Association Annual Show is now
history. I wish to thank all those attending. We had 238 entries
and 117 of those were placed into the auction, along with numerous
auction-only submittals, so some spectacular bargains were had at the
auction. Jaap-Jan deGreef did a wonderful job letting us in on the
trials and tribulations of life in Cuba and trying to collect killies
there under a very "closed" government, plus some great views of killie
habitats in several other countries. Original paintings for all
three places in 16 classes plus 3 special awards were donated by Ken
McKeighen. His skill at capturing these little jewels has grown
over the years and he has recently been placed on a list of the top 20
wildlife artists in America. A truly awesome collection of plants
at most reasonable prices were offered by Cory Fry of Baylees Fishees.
Everyone seemed to have had a good time and I wish to publicly extend my
thanks to Jaap-Jan deGreef and Ken McKeighen. |
| May 17, 2008 |
Robert Steinbach |
Robert Steinbach has just returned from
a 3000 mile collecting trip from Illinois to Texas, along the coast to
Florida, back to Texas and back to Illinois. He will do a presentation with maps,
pitcher plants etc and the fish found with several kinds of plants.
We will also have a critique session on the
2008 Show. Please have your good and bad points in mind so we can
build on this and have an even better show in 2009.
May 17th ChiKA
Meeting (3rd Saturday)2:00 P.M. in Room K131 at College of DuPage. |
| May 23-May 25, 2008 |
AKA Convention |
American Killifish Association 2008 Annual Convention
in Syracuse, NY. See the Convention Web Site
web site for more details. |
| July 19, 2008 1:00PM til ??? |
Annual Picnic |
Annual
Picnic at Ruth Warners' home in Machesney Park, IL
This will be a PotLuck affair.
You are requested to bring your own table setting and a dish to pass large
enough for 10 - 15 people. Please contact Ruth to co-ordinate this and
BE SURE to RSVP by Wed, July 16, by phone at (815) 877-8847 or
email ruthwarner@att.net
Weather permitting, this will
be held outdoors, so bring your folding chairs, etc.
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| September 20, 2008 |
To be announced |
The meeting was held at the COD. . |
| November 15, 2008 |
Peter Mertens and Poison
Dart Frogs |
Peter Mertens and Poison
Dart Frogs
Peter will speak at our November 15th meeting on Terrariums, Fruit Fly
Cultures and Poison Dart Frogs. He will be bringing fruit fly cultures and some
frog culture related items for the mini-auction. This is a topic that is
generating a lot of attention these days, and Peter is one of the noted
experts in the field.
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